Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crusaders streaked out to a 12-point lead with ten minutes gone in the first half by running off a 15-4 burst sparked by the shooting of forward Gary Witts and Perry's all-around play...
Caldwell was murdered on the last night of the trip, when three armed intruders burst into the guest house where the visitors were quartered. Dudman and Becker luckily escaped the gunfire, but Caldwell was caught in his room and died there. Who the assailants were may never be known, but the Cambodians immediately offered their own theory. Said the Westerners' official guide in Phnom-Penh, Thiounn Prasith: "Our enemies know of the importance of your visit and wanted to show the world that Cambodia could not protect her friends...
...days later, Harvard turned in a fine performance against a superb Stanford team, only to drop a 49-42 halftime advantage as Stanford ripped off a 27-2 burst in the opening minutes of the second stanza...
...clashes with the citizenry continue. In Najafabad, located near the industrial city of Isfahan, security forces were reported to have gone on a rampage against political dissidents. In the holy city of Qum, soldiers fired on a group of marchers. In the northeastern town of Mashhad, troops and police burst into a hospital and beat up the staff for having tended injured protesters...
...Secretary of State Cyrus Vance shuttled for six days between Cairo and Jerusalem in hopes of getting a treaty by Sunday, Dec. 17, a psychologically important deadline because it had been set as the goal for a treaty when the Camp David summit concluded, in a burst of exuberant optimism, exactly three months earlier. But at week's end, reluctantly acknowledging that Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Premier Menachem Begin were still far apart on the few unresolved issues, a disappointed Vance abruptly cut short his shuttle and returned to Washington. As Vance headed home, a weary Sadat...